Football Manager P13 – Facing Up and Moving Up

After a fairly mixed middle part of the season (that nonetheless saw Aldershot remain in the playoff places), it was time to bring the 23/24 season to a close, starting with a trip to Leyton Orient. Orient were in their first season back in League One after an absence of a few years, and they […]

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Football Manager P12 – Unexpected Heights

The next phase of the 23/24 season began with a rumour linking me to the vacant manager role at Wycombe. I had no idea why, and I made it clear I wasn’t keen. Aldershot had thrashed them 5-0 at their own ground earlier in the season – I seriously doubted they’d be a team I […]

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‘Sexual Market Value’

https://twitter.com/TheOmegaMale1/status/1361165166327590914?s=19 Say it with me… No one is defined by such artificial and gross ideas as a sexual market value… And if you truly believe that 15 year-old girls are to be evaluated in such a fashion, kindly call the cops on yourself and remove yourself from society.

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If Meerkats Could… Read Minds

… Read minds! Now… let’s be real here. If I could read minds, I’d definitely use this power for personal gain. Working in retail/sales, it would be most useful for working out a customer’s expectations, queries and objections, and overcoming those hurdles pre-emptively. There’d be opportunities with quizzes – imagine it – you go on […]

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Football Manager P11 – New Styles

The 22/23 season was over, Aldershot had stayed in League One for another season, and the players were about to go on a break. They collectively disappointed me in their reaction to my notion that we’d survive again in 23/24, leading me to look all the harder at making changes. Whilst I began to hunt […]

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Football Manager P10 – Will we Survive?

Here we go. The final third of Aldershot’s first ever season in League One. Would the team have enough about them to stay up, or would we be sucked down back into League Two? What twists awaited? We’d been pretty inconsistent up until now. Well, firstly, we had visitors from Oxford. They were 9th and […]

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Football Manager P9 – Inconsistency

With a third of the 22/23 season completed, Aldershot Town sat in 13th in League One, after 5 wins, 5 draws and 5 defeats, landing us 20 points. A repeat of this pattern in the next two thirds of the league campaign would almost certainly give us enough points to secure a place in League […]

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Snow Balls

There seems to be an abundance of phallic snow constructions lately… these rather hard (ahem) appendages are rigid (give me strength) and popping up (sigh) everywhere. Some are bigger than others (oh Lord) and they present a unique problem to anyone wishing to get rid of these erections (argh). Does one wait for them to […]

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Freedom of Speech

Once again social media is blowing up with conservatives getting anxious that their freedom of speech is being curtailed. Once again the key word that often goes overlooked is ‘consequences’. There are many examples of comments and positions that can have consequences. The most recent relates to the comments of Gina Carano, who played former […]

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The Meerkat Muse – 10/02/21

February! We look to the horizon, in hope, though alas there is still a long way to go before normality returns. I wish Covid-19 was not the dominating factor behind so many Muses, but it’s impossible to avoid how the pandemic treads upon virtually all aspects of our lives. Take work for example. Over the […]

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